coderenegade

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by coderenegade 1mo ago
Tariffs are a tax that buys you (at least) three things, all of which are difficult to quantify, and usually overlooked by economists: 1. Security. You make your own bullets. You're able to make and maintain your own military hardware.
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by coderenegade 2mo ago
This. Involve your kids in your hobbies. If they aren't interested, that's okay too -- you can be involved in theirs. Some hobbies have a finite life anyway. You aren't going to be a gymnast forever, for example, and that&#x2
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by coderenegade 2mo ago
In my experience, good software engineers are often better "engineers" than those working in more physical disciplines, because they get a lot more practice. But traditional engineers have a far better culture when it comes to tes
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by coderenegade 2mo ago
It's probably worth distinguishing software engineering from the ability to program. Programming is a skill that is similar to reading and writing in that it's a type of literacy, and it shares a common theme with literacy in that
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by coderenegade 2mo ago
I must be hallucinating all of those hybrid BYDs I keep seeing on the roads, then. You say 'EV', but the distinction that matters is battery electric versus high voltage hybrid, and low voltage hybrid. And hybrids, which are uncon
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by coderenegade 2mo ago
A few companies have tried small APU range extenders, but there wasn't really a market for it at the time. The point was more that complexity is relative and not necessarily a given, and it's not necessarily a bad thing if it&#x27
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by coderenegade 2mo ago
Methanol is the obvious choice, because there are so many ways to make it. Shipping certainly looks to be moving in that direction, though ammonia is also being trialled. Ethanol via fermentation is also doable at scale, but most effective
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by coderenegade 2mo ago
This is what the person that I was responding to wrote, and it's objectively wrong: >Hybrids are the worst of both worlds when it comes to maintenance. They have their benefits and are key to fighting climate change, but mechanicall
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by coderenegade 2mo ago
If we're talking synthetic fuels, you'd probably run cars on methanol rather than a hydrocarbon. Planes absolutely need kerosene, but cars can claw back most of the performance of petrol with alcohol fuels, and methanol is the sim
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by coderenegade 2mo ago
Fossil fuels contribute to climate change. Methanol is likely to power global shipping in the coming decades, and there's zero reason it can't also run cars. The reality is that hybrid vehicles have all of the same advantages that
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by coderenegade 2mo ago
The issue with ICEs is the fossil fuel part, not the engine part. Synthetic hydrocarbons and alcohols don't contribute to climate change at all. And alcohol fuels are both easy to make and about as good as hydrocarbons.
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by coderenegade 2mo ago
By the time you get to variable valve lift and timing, the complexity of hybrids is either a wash or in favor of the hybrid when compared to a traditional engine. Electronics have been integrated in vehicles for generations now, and going h
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by coderenegade 2mo ago
The surprising thing is that parts availability is even worse for new cars. Sensors are built into every part now, so it's no longer just a windscreen or a bumper. If those sensors are critical to the driver assist systems, the car can
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by coderenegade 2mo ago
This is a big part of it for me. With 'driver assist' systems that intervene when you're driving now being mandatory for all new vehicles sold in my country, I don't want anything newer than 2024. Practically , probably
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by coderenegade 2mo ago
From what I can see, nobody bought Chinese cars because the styling was terrible. BYD hiring western designers is what suddenly made Chinese cars desirable, because it kicked other brands into gear. The forefront of Chinese ICE development
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by coderenegade 2mo ago
China moved directly to hybrid drivetrains, which is where the future of the internal combustion engine lies. They did this while pushing EV technology, and it gave them a fundamental advantage because low voltage hybrids are not the futu
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by coderenegade 2mo ago
None of that is inherent. You could have said the same thing a decade ago about vehicle production, or microelectronics a decade before that, and yet here we are. The lesson we should learn from Comac is that China is quite happy to use its
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by coderenegade 2mo ago
What comparative advantage exists for high technology? I get it for things like agriculture and resources, but what intrinsic barriers are there to computer chips and cars? Especially when we're talking about the heart of the global su
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by coderenegade 2mo ago
I switched to codex just before the Fable release. I got sick of Claude being lazy and not completing tasks. Imo, codex is currently a much better model, and it also seems to be technically stronger on the type of applied math and theory he
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by coderenegade 2mo ago
I'm out of the scene these days, and my field is more RL than LLMs, but my take is that all of this is telling us that meaning (and intelligence) is in the medium. If an LLM is a function mapping an input to some stateful internal repr
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by coderenegade 2mo ago
Cars have a wide operating band, which is why hybrids make sense. Fundamentally, hybrid cars want to run the engine at a narrow set of operating points that are most efficient, and use a reservoir to do time arbitrage on the energy generate
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by coderenegade 2mo ago
This is mostly correct. The Prius is actually a series-parallel hybrid, as it maintains a direct mechanical link between the engine and the wheels (and the engine is capable of adding power to the wheels) but it also uses two electric motor
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by coderenegade 3mo ago
This is a shame, and hopefully it reverts soon. I switched from Claude to Codex just before the Fable release because Claude doesn't follow instructions and goes off the ranch too frequently. I really don't want to have to switch
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by coderenegade 3mo ago
This is my experience with Claude as well, and the reason I switched to codex. Codex just seems far more efficient, despite the smaller context window, and it actually follows instructions.
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by coderenegade 3mo ago
And those of us working in the slopfields will probably be employed until the day we die. Love it.
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by coderenegade 3mo ago
This. German really isn't that difficult for an English speaker. And if someone really wants to make a home and build a life in a foreign country, why would they expect that they don't need to learn the native language? That seems
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by coderenegade 3mo ago
No, because the thread is about preventing crimes before they happen , and asserting that this is unquestionably good and an unambiguous moral position . It isn't, even if we accept that widespread enforcement of the law is generally
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by coderenegade 3mo ago
Fair enough, I was under the impression that enough data was sufficient.
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by coderenegade 3mo ago
1) The only difference between a just law and an unjust law is time. I have family members who needed to wear dog tags to drink in certain pubs because of the colour of their skin, and I'm not old. And yet such laws were widely support
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by coderenegade 3mo ago
It's definitely not. The law is not, and never has been, a moral bar. A healthy legal system requires laws to be able to change over time to reflect society, and sometimes this requires that people be able to break the law.

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